Main events scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15

Main events scheduled in Japan for Tuesday, Nov. 15:

-- 45th anniversary of 1977 abduction of Megumi Yokota, then 13-year-old schoolgirl in Niigata, by North Korean agents.

-- Preliminary gross domestic product data for July-September period to be released by Cabinet Office at 8:50 a.m.

-- Sendai High Court's Akita branch to hand down ruling on vote value disparity in upper house election in July at 1:30 p.m.

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